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Album Review: Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
8.5/10

In a recent Pitchfork review Animal Collective declared that it must be “weird to be in a band with good musicians”, referring to the fact that they basically view themselves as electronic collagists than a band in the strict (i.e., formally trained) sense. It is an interesting [...]

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Album Review: Richard Swift - Atlantic Ocean
8/10
Often compared to Harry Nilsson, Richard Swift shares the 60s maverick’s category-avoiding, highly melodic and eccentic brand of pop rock. Swift, who prefers the analogue four track production techniques of the Nilsson era, recorded ‘The Atlantic Ocean’ - his latest for Secretly Canadian - in Wilco’s loft (Wilco’s [...]

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FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT
Whiter than white
5.5/10
Norwegian producer Erlend Øye could pass as a modern day Arthur Russell. He may not play the violin but he does have the curious distinction of being at once a popular house and electronica artist/DJ and one half of Simon and Garfunkel-esque folk outfit Kings of [...]

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Thrill Jockey release low on thrills
5/10
FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT
Angela Desveaux’s second solo album is agreeable but very much old time country in the mould of Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn, mildly infused with Californian rock. Despite her Montreal and Nova Scotia background, Desveaux’s musical origins are very much south of the [...]

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